Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Roosevelt Country
President Theodore Roosevelt visited this rugged mountainous area in the park's northeast
corner during a two-week jaunt through the park in 1903, lending his name to the rustic
Roosevelt Lodge by Tower-Roosevelt Junction that opened three years later. Fossil
forests, the wildlife-rich Lamar River Valley, its tributary trout streams and the dramatic
and craggy peaks of the Absaroka Range are the highlights in this remote, scenic and un-
developed region. The rustic cabins, stagecoach rides and Western cookouts of the
Roosevelt Lodge add a cowboy flavor to the region's frontier feel. The region is also the
birthplace of the park's current bison and wolf populations and one of the park's great
wildlife-viewing areas.
The 29-mile Northeast Entrance Rd passes from Cooke City through the Lamar Valley
to Tower-Roosevelt Junction (6270ft) and then continues west for 18 miles to Mammoth
Hot Springs. This is the only road in the park that remains open year-round. From Tower-
Roosevelt junction the Grand Loop Rd heads south to Canyon Junction, over the high
Dunraven Pass.
Roosevelt Lodge (
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)
has lodging, food, showers, a small grocery store and a
nearby ranger station and Conoco gas station, as well as nearby hiking trails and a horse
corral (
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)
.
